Sara - Settlements

Most Sara who are Nar (hereafter reference will be to the Nar unless
otherwise mentioned) reside in small villages located near streams or
along roads. In precolonial times, in principle, a hamlet (
gir be
) was a distinct area in which members of a patrician (
gir ka
) lived with their wives, children, other kin, and followers. Villages (
gir begi
[the
gi
suffix is a plural marker]) were divided into a number of such tracts
of different clans. Households in these villages tended to be dispersed,
with their circular thatched huts standing in the midst of family
members' fields, but colonial and postcolonial officials have
obliged the relocation and concentration of households along more easily
administered roads. In the 1970s most villages had 200 to 300
inhabitants.